Ahoy There Maties! Welcome to newsletter #67 of the Official Gilligan's Island Fan Club. We are still trying to get the whole series on DVD, and it's really not working out too well. HOWEVER, there is a site that all of us can go to and vote to get it on DVD. This site is at http://www.tvshowsondvd.com. Gilligan's Island is currently 105th place and voting for the show is free! If all of us get together, the rating should get close to the top. We will also add a link at the top of our main page so that newcomers can go there too. Please vote for Gilligan's Island! Ronald Turner (Former GI Fan Club President back in the 80's) has opened up his vault and is making all of his video and audio tapes available to the public! He has a ton of specials including interviews, book signings, episodes, movies and more. Please visit his page at: http://www.gilligansisle.com/ron.html Dawn Wells will be on "Street Smarts" on Friday August 15th. Not sure about the time, but it will be on the WB. Bob Denver was voted one of the 200 Greatest Icons on TV Land and came in number 122. They Showed Clips From Mr And Mrs and Gilligan's Living Doll. Sherwood Schwartz will be at the TV Land Convention in Burbank on August 16-17. See tvland.com for more details. The Gilligan's Island Musical is here again! This time it's in Hickville, Ohio. We are sending our Ohio Promoter to the show and hopefully she'll have a review for us by the time the next newsletter is sent. If anybody is in the Ohio area try to see it. I saw the one in San Diego many years ago and it was wonderful!!! The Village Players of Hicksville, Ohio Proudly Presents "Gilligan's Island, The Musical" August 15, 16, 17, 22, 23 & 24 At The Huber Opera House & Civic Center Hicksville, Ohio For more information magicjay@mchsi.com Another Gilligan's Island Musical is coming in October in case you can't make the Ohio showing. This one will take place in Birmingham, Alabama at the historic Virginia Samford Theatre. Contact our Alabama Promoter Frank Thompson at centrestage@webtv.net for more info. OCTOBER Thurs.9@ 7:30 Fri.10@ 7:30 Sat.11@tba Thurs.16@7:30 Fri.17@7:30 Sat.18@2:30 AND 7:30 Hey have you seen the new Rugrats movie, "Rugrats Gone Wild?" There are about 4 or 5 references to Gilligan on the movie and even some of the theme music. It's great! In the movie, the Rugrats are shipwrecked. Great opportunity for Gilligan references! Melonpool, http://www.melonpool.com, is a book dedicated to comics. This year their theme was none other than Gilligan's Island. It's filled with a ton of comics and the book is really Gilligan based. Check it out for yourself. A fan club member writes: The Mosquitoes songs "He's A Loser" and "Don't Bug Me" are uncannily similar to the two Beatles songs, "I'm A Loser" (Lennon/Mccartney) and "Don't Bother Me" (Harrison). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now for some restaurant reviews from 2 of our fan club members. From Mitch S Gilligan's Clam Bar and Grill Address 366 Route 202, Pomona, NY Phone 845-354-1161 Something called buzz led us to two relatively new places in northern Rockland. The fact that they are complementary establishments led us to try them on the same night out, and what a night out they gave in return. Gilligan's is an adorable clam bar and seafood restaurant attached to the well-known C & M fish market on Route 202. The owners of C & M were willing to risk their pristine reputation as fish retailers by exposing their flank as seafood chefs. And have they come up smelling like roses. The menu has a finished look to it, like the best effort of a large franchise — compact, glossy, clever and with reasonable prices on fish you take on faith to be fresh from the showcase in the fish market next door. For instance, a dozen medium-size top-neck clams are only $7.95, and they're delivered pronto. At that price, why resist the urge to have a dozen yourself or to order a second dozen? The next great discovery came from the fried scallops dinner ($9.95) made from over half of a pound of "dry" scallops — that is, scallops not processed with water or chemicals, which can have a soggy texture. These sea scallops we were served were nicely fibrous and exceptionally sweet, adding up to an all-time bargain. Gilligan's Buffalo calamari ($6.95) is crispy breaded and fried calamari, extra tender and fresh, doused in authentic Buffalo-style hot sauce cut with melted butter. While slightly salty, it is a most pleasurable item. Stuffed mushrooms ($5.95) were a success. Although very shyly seasoned, they had a strong presence of thread-like white crab meat. Mussels in white wine and garlic ($5.95) were not as good as the other seafood, slightly small with a decent herbal brine that would have been enriched with a larger touch of olive oil or butter. Soups were outstanding, but when was the last time you needed to add salt to a seafood soup? The extra-creamy lobster bisque, smooth buttery New England clam chowder and the chunky thick Manhattan clam chowder were all washed of any salt, to an almost unnatural extent. Cape Cod Imperial ($15.95) was a broiled platter covered with a small lobster tail, some lovely scallops, shrimp and a slice of flounder fillet baked under buttery crumbs. Its impeccable freshness caused the fillet to outshine the other items on the plate. Grilled grouper ($10.95) was cut from small grouper, not giant ones that give thick slabs of fillet. Grilled over an open flame, it was perfectly moist inside and nicely charred outside. Shrimp fra diavolo ($9.95) was a heaping bowl of linguine in hot red sauce loaded with minced garlic and redolent of fruity olive oil. The shrimp were small but plentiful, but the pasta was cooked without much salt in the water, which made the dish a little flat. Crab Feast ($29.95) was a platter of king crab legs, snow crab legs and Dungeness crabs from the Pacific. The meaty Dungeness might catch on in these parts better if Gilligan's served it cleaned of internal organs and bile the way they do on the West Coast. Service is informal but efficient, and the good news is that the backyard Tiki Bar is being enclosed in a heated tent to house those waiting for tables in this diminutive new restaurant. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gilligan's Restaurant and Bar - Lewes, Delaware. (Near Rehoboth Beach, Del.) Address: 134 Market St., Lewes Phone: (302)644-7230 Date of event: 17 July 2003 You enter the restaurant on the shipwrecked S.S. Minnow. The menus have the lyrics to the Gilligan's Island Theme song on the back. After that, the similarity ends. There was no Gilligan's Island memorabilia around the restaurant, but the décor was tropical, with bamboo furniture and framed pictures of palm trees. The bar section is on the bow of the boat, decked out in party lights and gets a lot of activity. The waitress advised us that the restaurant's kitchen is actually inside the Minnow. You have a choice of eating in the restaurant or al fresco. My husband and I chose the al fresco option, which leads you through the small but cozy restaurant to a large deck outside on the water, facing the Lewes Canal and the boats docked there. I should have asked the Professor for some of his bug spray though, before choosing the al fresco option, we definitely had a few mosquito bites after the meal. We started our meal off with the crab dip which was very good, served with toasted baguette slices, the crab dip had a nice kick to it and was lump crab meat. The main course I chose was "Cheryl's Crab Cake" for $19.95, it was fabulous! The crab cake itself is all lump crabmeat with no filler. There is a nice crust on the outside of the cake to keep the shape of the crab cake, but inside is pure crabmeat. My entree was served with steamed green beans, a mixed onion &pepper salad and a purple potato. (Yes, a purple potato, its where they get those blue potato chips). My husband, Robert had the "Seafood Pasta" for $19.95. Robert said it was excellent. The shrimp were large with scallops, and crabmeat served on angel hair pasta covered with melted cheddar cheese. It was a large portion and looked very yummy! For dessert, we each had the Two-tone chocolate cheesecake. It was light and decadent at the same time. The cheesecake was made of white and dark chocolate cheesecake on an Oreo based crust. Mmmmm! (No banana cream pie on the menu, but they had a margarita cheesecake and a Kentucky pecan cheesecake.) The food quality was top notch, the service people friendly and attentive. The food took awhile to come to us, but that is mentioned in the menu, since all the dinners are individually prepared to order. We found the restaurant a little on the pricey side, nothing Mr. Howell couldn't handle, the entrees start at $12.95 and go up to $26.95. Our meal total was $75 that included 2 non-alcoholic drinks, 1 appetizer, 2 entrees and 2 desserts. And of course, being in Delaware, there was no sales tax. Sincerely, Laura & Robert Workman Ashburn, VA A special thanks to our contributers: Heather KungfuML@aol.com Wendy (www.bradyworld.com) Until next time, "Smooth Sailing." (Man I'm getting hungry!!!) Willy Gilligan President/Webmaster Official Gilligan's Island Fan Club http://www.gilligansisle.com